Introduction
As researchers, we give presentations. Over the last years, I gave somewhere between 2 and 10 presentations a year. What I need is a html document that lists all my presentations, their title, date of presentation and a link to the pdf document in a table. This table can then be included on my institutional home page. As a plus, I want the table to be searchable and each column to be sortable. I figured this must be possible by extracting the metadata stored inside each presentations pdf file and writing this into a html table. In this way, I can avoid having to maintain a seperate database of title, venues, dates etc but instead the pdfs are my sole source of truth. In the following, I will describe a pipeline consisting of
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